Population of Australia

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Population

2022:26 million people

Data for September 2022,

Only two states in Australia have more people living than kangaroos, data for 2020

2017: 24.5 million people

The population of Australia as of 2017 was 24.5 million people.

Settlement areas

Data for 2020

Only 2% of Australia's population lives in the yellow zone. Data for 2019

Migration

2023: Number of migrants arriving in a year - more than 0.8% of the country's population

Comparison of 2019 and 2023 data

2021: Net population inflow in 4 years

Average age - 33 years

Data for 2019

Nationalities

Natives

1975

First Aboriginal call. Penny Tweedy, Australia, 1975

1947: Harsh rite of initiation of boys among Aboriginal people

Charles P. Mountford in 1947 made a trip to the desert regions of Central Australia, where avstra­lytsev indestructibly preserved ancient customs. That's what he tells.

"The children of Australians are surrounded by universal attention, las­kami and care. But then comes youth. And then bezzabot­naya the boy's life unexpectedly ends.

Even the women closest to him: grandmother, mother, sister - suddenly nabra­syvayutsya him and, threatening with flaming torches, expel him from the place of common habitat (parking, camps). From that time until the end of the circumcision rite - for about a year - the young man is treated as an outcast. He sleeps now in ne­kotorom distance from the parking lot, never approaching women or talking to them. He doesn't speak to the old men either, until they call him themselves. Answering the old people, the young man is obliged to speak only in a whisper.

The life of the exile goes like this: during the day he is among the men, and at night he sleeps at his small fire behind the cher­toy of the tribe's parking lot. And finally, the day comes when the old men grab the young man and, under the lamentations of women, screams and stomps of men who have already passed the initiation, lead him to a secluded place. Here the closest relatives of the young man - vzros­lyye men - open the veins on their hands and smear the body of the young man with blood. The long initiation rite is intended to teach the young Australian the laws of the clan and tribe and give him a religious and moral consciousness.

At the same time, everything that can lead to the achievement of the desired result is is­polzuyetsya: a test of hunger and pain to strengthen fortitude, an atmosphere of incomprehensible mystery.

The young man, lezha­shchy face down, hears but does not see what is happening around him. Only for a moment do they allow him to raise his head and, in the light of the fluctuating flame of the fire, look at this ecstasy-inducing zreli­shche. A receptive youth is so captured by amazing impressions that this picture remains in his memory for life. The first initiation rite, involving circumcision, is the most important step molodo­go an Australian towards maturity.

After circumcision, the young man is put on a otlichitel­nuyu bandage on his head, which testifies to his social growth, and now he can only be seen among old nastav­nikov and guards. He is obliged to avoid women and not look at them. His new name is now wangarapa - "boy in hiding." Together with the elderly, he makes long and long journeys, getting acquainted with the life of other druzhe­stvennykh tribes.

The following rite of passage is associated with the undercutting of the polo­vogo organ (longitudinal incision at the base of the penis - Ed.); this rite symbolizes that the young man became a pol­nopravnym man. Now he can marry if his named is old enough. He can take ucha­stiye in the council of a tribe or clan. Undercutting is the hardest and most excruciating of all trials and means pere­khod ordained into full members of society.

To this, it should be added that not all young men okazyva­yutsya able to endure all the hardships and torture they are subjected to during the initiation: some die from torture and deprivation. This is probably why young men pro­khodyashchiye initiation are deeply izoliro­vannykh, women and children are strictly forbidden even to pri­blizhatsya to the area where the posvyashchaye­mykh camp is located so that they cannot see the tortured and hear their moans and cries.

The extreme cruelty of dedication rites, nesom­nenno, contributed, on the one hand, to the dropout and destruction of the weak by the body and, most importantly, the weak by the spirit, and on the other hand, cultivated, encouraged and inherited the vyso­kiye qualities of courage, resilience, modesty ^[1]..

1923

Aboriginal boomerang, Australia, 1923.

1902

1902. Vidham Prison. Aboriginal Australia held captive by a white man.

Jews

2010: 107,000 Jews

Number of Jews worldwide, 2010

Richest people

2023: More than $4 million - the threshold for entering the number of the 1% richest people in the country

According to data published in February 2024.

2022: The country has 1.84 million millionaires

Poverty

2023: Keeping the number of homeless people at 12 people per 10 thousand population

Dynamics of the number of homeless people in countries per 10 thousand people

Mortality

2018

Low number of deaths in road accidents

The number of deaths on the roads per 100 thousand vehicles. Data for 2018

The cause of the highest number of deaths is cardiovascular disease

As of 2018

2016: High drug deaths

Countries with the most drug-related deaths per million people aged 15 to 64.

Number of deaths from opioid use disorders per 100,000 people (2016)

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